Daniel Evan Portner
Curriculum Vitae
University of Arizona
Department of Geosciences
1040 E. 4th Street
Tucson, AZ 85721
Office: GS 539
(240) 672-5004 (cell)
portner@email.arizona.edu
www.geo.arizona.edu/~portner
Education
Ph.D. Geophysics
University of Arizona
Global Seismology and Tectonics
Adviser: Susan Beck
B.S. Geological Sciences w/ Honors, Minor – Biology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Seismology
Adviser: Lara Wagner
Expected May 2019
May 2014
Professional Experience
University of Arizona
Graduate Research/Teaching Associate
Supervisor: Susan Beck
USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Student Trainee
Supervisor: Gavin Hayes
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Supervisor: Lara Wagner
August 2014 – Present
Summer 2015
January 2012 – May 2014
Honors and Awards
GPSC Travel Grant ($600)
December 2015
UA College of Science Galileo Circle Scholarship ($1,000)
March 2015
GPSC Travel Grant ($375)
December 2014
BP Geophysics Scholarship ($4,601)
Fall 2014
UNC Chapter Sigma Gamma Epsilon W.A. Tarr Service Award ($50 Scholarship)
April 2014
UNC OUR Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship ($3,000 Grant)
Summer 2013
UNC Geological Sciences Pignatiello Fellowship ($5,000 Grant)
Summer 2013
UNC Geological Sciences Grover Murray Field Camp Scholarship ($1,500)
Spring 2013
UNC Dean’s List
Spring 2011 – Fall 2013
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Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant
GEOS322: Introduction to Geophysics
GEOS170C: Life on Earth
Spring 2016
Fall 2014
Unpublished Writing
Portner, D.E. (2014) Investigating the Seismic Gap in North Carolina: A Seismic Survey of the Deep
River Basin in Central North Carolina. Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Carolina Digital
Repository, https://cdr.lib.unc.edu.
Portner, D. (2013) View into the magmatic history of Akaroa Volcano through volcanic deposits at
View Hill and Okains Bay. Final Research Project, Frontiers Abroad, http://frontiersabroad.com.
Field Experience
CDCAT demobilization
Frontiers Abroad Field Course
SESAME maintenance
PULSE maintenance
CAUGHT (Peru) demobilization
SESAME deployment
PHRACCS maintenance
PHRACCS permitting and deployment
May 2015
Winter 2013
October 2012 and October 2013
August 2012
July 2012
May 2012
Spring 2012 – Spring 2014
March 2012
Conference Abstracts
Portner, D., Beck, S., Zandt, G., & Scire, A. (2015) Geometry of the Deep Andean Subduction Zone
Beneath Chile and Argentina from New Finite-Frequency Teleseismic P-wave Tomography.
AGU Fall Meeting – San Francisco, CA, Poster Presentation, T51A-2850.
Hayes, G., Hearne, M., Portner, D., Borjas, C., Moore, G., & Flamme, H. (2015) Slab2 – Providing
updated subduction zone geometries and modeling tools to the community. AGU Fall Meeting
– San Francisco, CA, T41G-08.
Beck, S., Zandt, G., Scire, A., Ward, K., Portner, D., Bishop, B., Ryan, J., Wagner, L., & Long, M.
(2015) Subduction Zone Science – Examples of Seismic Images of the Central Andes and
Subducting Nazca Slab. AGU Fall Meeting – San Francisco, CA,T41G-02.
Portner, D., Beck, S., & Zandt, G. (2015) Preliminary Deep Tomographic Imaging of the Southern
Andes Subduction Zone. GeoDaze 43rd Annual Geoscience Symposium – Tucson, AZ, Oral
Presentation.
Portner, D. (2014) Investigating the Seismic Gap in Central North Carolina. 12th Annual Anadarko
Student Research Symposium – Chapel Hill, NC, Oral Presentation.
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Portner, D., Wagner, L.S., Fouch, M.J., James, D.E., Roman, D., & Golden, S. (2014) Investigating
the Seismic Gap in Central North Carolina. UNC Celebration of Undergraduate Research –
Chapel Hill, NC, Poster Presentation.
Portner, D., Wagner, L.S., Fouch, M.J., James, D.E., Roman, D., & Golden, S. (2014) Investigating
the Seismic Gap in Central North Carolina. USGS/CERI CEUS NEHRP Program and Planning
Workshop – Memphis, TN, Invited Poster Presentation, 241-2.
Portner, D., Wagner, L.S., Fouch, M.J., James, D.E., Roman, D., & Golden, S. (2013) Seismicity in
the Triassic Deep River Basin, North Carolina. AGU Fall Meeting – San Francisco, CA, Poster
Presentation, T23G-2671.
Portner, D., Wagner, L.S., Fouch, M.J., James, D.E., Roman, D., & Golden, S. (2012) PreHydrofracking Regional Assessment of Central Carolina Seismicity. GSA Anuual Meeting –
Charlotte, NC, Poster Presentation.
Community Involvement
UA Graduate Representative
Fall 2015 - Present
GeoDaze Annual Geoscience Symposium
Treasurer
Registration co-Chair
Spring 2016
Spring 2015
Tucson Gem and Mineral Show Junior Education Booth
Volunteer
February 2015, 2016
IRIS-Earthscope USArray Data Processing and Analysis Short Course
Participant
SGE: National Honors Society for the Earth Sciences
UNC Alpha Alpha Chapter Founder/Treasurer
August 2014
Spring 2012 – Spring 2014
Professional Affiliations
Geological Society of America
American Geophysical Union
Arizona Geological Society
2012 – Present
2013 – Present
2014 – Present
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Updated February 16, 2016